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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof struct
Keywords: sizeof struct
Message-ID: <14529@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 6 Sep 89 20:19:26 GMT
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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>Some other processors require word alignment, or alignment on a boundary
>equal to the size of the item stored there, or other such restrictions.

In this particular case, the processor doesn't require any special alignment
for the structure in question, but the implementation pads it anyway.  (As is
its right, silly though it may be.)  It's not a bug, just a misfeature.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint